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All ten episodes from the second series of the Australian drama set
in the 1950s, starring Marta Dusseldorp and Arianwen
Parkes-Lockwood. When Sarah Adams (Dusseldorp), a mysterious woman
who has spent the last 20 years abroad, receives tragic news from
her family, she begins her journey back home to her native
Australia. As she gets to know the wealthy Bligh family, her life
begins to change forever. The episodes are: 'No Secrets, Ever', 'I
Believe', 'A Kiss to Build a Dream On', 'What Your Heart Says',
'The Ghosts of Christmas Past', 'Auld Lang Syne', 'No Other Love',
'Answer Me, My Love', 'I Do, I Do' and 'Unforgettable'.
This major international Handbook offers the most up-to-date and
original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly
transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as
related key concepts such as place, scale, networks and
regionalism. This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together
renowned specialists who have extensively theorized these spatial
concepts and contributed to rich empirical research in disciplines
such as geography, sociology, political science and international
relations. It offers fresh, cutting-edge, and contextual insights
on the significance of regions and territories in today's dynamic
world. This is a timely and vital resource for both students and
researchers of human geography and regional studies. Political
geographers and international relations scholars will also benefit
from reading the Handbook as it offers a comprehensive yet
accessible examination of the geography of regions and territories.
All 13 episodes from the first series of the Australian drama set
in the 1950s, starring Marta Dusseldorp and Arianwen
Parkes-Lockwood. When Sarah Adams (Dusseldorp), a mysterious woman
who has spent the last 20 years abroad, receives tragic news from
her family, she begins her journey back home to her native
Australia. As she gets to know the wealthy Bligh family, her life
begins to change forever. The episodes are: 'The Prodigal
Daughter', 'The Welcome Mat', 'Truth Will Out', 'The Mona Lisa
Smile', 'Day of Atonement', 'That's Amore', 'Boom!', 'Worlds
Apart', 'Cane Toad', 'Lest We Forget', 'True to Your Heart', 'New
Beginning' and 'Secret Love'.
Academic and accepted orthodoxy maintains that Southeast Asia, and
Asia generally, is evolving into a distinctive East Asian regional
order. This book questions this claim and reveals instead
uncertainty and incoherence at the heart of ASEAN, the region's
foremost institution. The authors provide a systematic critique of
ASEAN's evolution and institutional development, as well as a
unified understanding of the international relations and political
economy of ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific. It is the first study to
provide a sceptical analysis of international relations orthodoxies
regarding regionalization and institutionalism, and is based on
wide-ranging and rigorous research. Students of international
relations, the Asia-Pacific, Southeast Asia, regional studies,
international history and security and defence studies will find
this book of great interest, as will scholars, policy makers and
economic forecasters with an interest in long-term Asia-Pacific
trends.
Offering a geographical political economy analysis, this book
explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational
economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how
policy-makers frame problems and offer intervention solutions in
different cities and regions. Drawing on different approaches to
state intervention, neoliberalism, crisis and contradiction
theories, and notions of depoliticisation, this book explains
policy failure and how it is impacted by flux surrounding economic
development. With constant changes to legislation, institutional
initiatives, and ministerial responsibility, local and regional
economic development is shown to be at a critical crossroads.
Theoretically innovative and empirically focused, this timely book
is a must-read for researchers and policy-makers of urban
geography, regional development, political economy and public
policy.
East Asia is without question a region of huge economic, political
and security significance. Asian Security and the Rise of China
offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of the international
politics of the Asia-Pacific since the end of the Cold War, seeking
to address the overarching question of how we can most convincingly
explain the central dynamics of Asia's international relations. Via
a realist perspective on the dynamics and frictions associated with
accommodating the rise of powerful states, this timely book
addresses the core issue in contemporary Asian politics: the rise
of China. The contributors expertly evaluate China's rise and the
impact it has had on the dynamics of regional relations in North
East and South East Asia. They demonstrate that China's economic
development and its regional and international ambition
increasingly conflict with the existing consensus-based regional
arrangements such as the ASEAN Regional Forum and the East Asian
Summit mechanism. As a consequence, smaller states in the region
increasingly resort to hedging and balancing strategies in an
attempt to mitigate Chinese hegemony. This leaves the region in the
grip of a complex and potentially destabilizing security dilemma.
The book offers a compelling analysis of the problem that China
presents for its region that will enlighten undergraduate students
of regional political studies and international relations.
Postgraduate and Masters students on courses addressing East and
South East Asia will also find plenty of information in this
invaluable book.
When is it OK to lie about the past? If history is a story, then
everyone knows that the 'official story' is told by the winners. No
matter what we may know about how the past really happened, history
is as it is recorded: this is what George Orwell called
doublethink. But what happens to all the lost, forgotten, censored,
and disappeared pasts of world history? Cinema Against Doublethink
uncovers how a world of cinemas acts as a giant archive of these
lost pasts, a vast virtual store of the world's memories. The most
enchanting and disturbing films of recent years - Uncle Boonmee Who
Can Recall his Past Lives, Nostalgia for the Light, Even the Rain,
The Act of Killing, Carancho, Lady Vengeance - create ethical
encounters with these lost pasts, covering vast swathes of the
planet and crossing huge eras of time. Analysed using the
philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (the time-image) and Enrique Dussel
(transmodern ethics), the multitudinous cinemas of the world are
shown to speak out against doublethink, countering this biggest lie
of all with their myriad 'false' versions of world history. Cinema,
acting against doublethink, remains a powerful agent for reclaiming
the truth of history for the 'post-truth' era.
Rescaling the state provides a theoretically-informed and
empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in
the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of
economic governance. Using case studies from England, Scotland,
Northern Ireland and Wales, the book examines the purported reasons
for, and the unintended consequences of, devolution. As well as
comparing policy and practice across the four devolved territories,
the book also explores the pitfalls and instances of good practice
associated with devolution in the UK. Rescaling the state is an
important text for all social scientists - particularly political
scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and human geographers -
interested in the devolution of power in the UK and, indeed, all
instances of contemporary state restructuring. It is also a
significant book for all policy-makers interested in understanding
the increasing complexity of the policy landscapes of economic
governance in the UK. With a new preface for the 2017 paperback
edition -- .
Rescaling the state provides a theoretically-informed and
empirically-rich account of the process of devolution undertaken in
the UK since 1997, focusing in particular on the devolution of
economic governance. Using case studies from England, Scotland,
Northern Ireland and Wales, the book examines the purported reasons
for, and the unintended consequences of, devolution. As well as
comparing policy and practice across the four devolved territories,
the book also explores the pitfalls and instances of good practice
associated with devolution in the UK. Rescaling the state is an
important text for all social scientists - particularly political
scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and human geographers -
interested in the devolution of power in the UK and, indeed, all
instances of contemporary state restructuring. It is also a
significant book for all policy-makers interested in understanding
the increasing complexity of the policy landscapes of economic
governance in the UK. -- .
The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive
survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership, and
an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its
social, cultural and political context. The handbook includes an
introduction and five sections with thirty two chapters by leading
international contributors. The introduction charts the changing
landscape of social and ethnographic research on multilingualism
(theory, methods and research sites) and it foregrounds key
contemporary debates. Chapters are structured around sub-headings
such as: early developments, key issues related to theory and
method, new research directions. This handbook offers an
authoritative guide to shifts over time in thinking about
multilingualism as well as providing an overview of the range of
contemporary themes, debates and research sites. The Routledge
Handbook of Multilingualism is the ideal resource for postgraduate
students of multilingualism, as well as those studying education
and anthropology.
Researching Multilingualism expertly engages with a new
sociolinguistics of multilingualism, taking account of this new
communicative order and the particular cultural and social
conditions of our times. Seventeen chapters are divided into four
sections covering: researching discourses, policies and practices;
contemporary mobilities; Researching multilingual communication
on-line; Multilingualism in research practice. This
state-of-the-art overview of research methodologies in multilingual
settings will be of interest for all students and researchers
working in the area of multilingualism within Linguistics, Applied
Linguistics, Education and Communication Studies.
The introduction of new technologies can be controversial,
especially when they create ethical tensions as well as winners and
losers among stakeholders and interest groups. While ethical
tensions resulting from the genetic modification of crops and
plants and their supportive gene technologies have been apparent
for decades, persistent challenges remain. This book explores the
contemporary nature, type, extent and implications of ethical
tensions resulting from agricultural biotechnology specifically and
technology generally. There are four main arenas of ethical
tensions: public opinion, policy and regulation, technology as
solutions to problems, and older versus new technologies.
Contributions focus on one or more of these arenas by identifying
the ethical tensions technology creates and articulating emerging
fault lines and, where possible, viable solutions. Key features
include: Focusing on contemporary challenges created by new and
emerging technologies, especially agricultural biotechnology.
Identifying a unique perspective by considering the problem of
ethical tensions created or enhanced by new technologies. Providing
an interdisciplinary perspective by including perspectives from
sociologists, economists, philosophers and other social scientists.
This book will be of interest to academics in agricultural
economics, sociology and philosophy and policymakers concerned with
introducing new technology into agriculture.
This edited collection, including contributors from the disciplines
of art history, film studies, cultural geography and cultural
anthropology, explores ways in which islands in the north of
England and Scotland have provided space for a variety of
visual-cultural practices and forms of creative expression which
have informed our understanding of the world. Simultaneously, the
chapters reflect upon the importance of these islands as a space in
which, and with which, to contemplate the pressures and the
possibilities within contemporary society. This book makes a timely
and original contribution to the developing field of island
studies, and will be of interest to scholars studying issues of
place, community and the peripheries.
An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a
broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for
students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and
related subjects.
The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political
geography, covering not only traditional concerns such as the
state, geopolitics, electoral geography and nationalism; but also
increasing important areas at the cutting-edge of political
geography research including globalization, the geographies of
regulation and governance, geographies of policy formulation and
delivery, and themes at the intersection of political and cultural
geography, including the politics of place consumption, landscapes
of power, citizenship, identity politics and geographies of
mobilization and resistance.
This second edition builds on the strengths of the first. The
main changes and enhancements are:
- four new chapters on: political geographies of globalization,
geographies of empire, political geography and the environment and
geopolitics and critical geopolitics
- significant updating and revision of the existing chapters to
discuss key developments, drawing on recent academic contributions
and political events
- new case studies, drawing on an increasing number of
international and global examples
- additional boxes for key concepts and an enlarged
glossary.
As with the first edition, extensive use is made of case study
examples, illustrations, explanatory boxes, guides to further
reading and a glossary of key terms to present the material in an
easily accessible manner. Through employment of these techniques
this book introduces students to contributions from a range of
social and political theories in the context of empirical case
study examples. By providing a basic introduction to such concepts
and pointing to pathways into more specialist material, this book
serves, both as a core text for first- and second- year courses in
political geography, and as a resource alongside supplementary
textbooks for more specialist third year courses.
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